A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious
disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend
of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and
supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of
Ghosts.

“A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out
of me, and I’m pretty hard to scare,” raved Stephen King
about Paul Tremblay’s previous novel. Now, Tremblay returns
with another disturbing tale sure to unsettle readers.

Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the
devastating news that every mother fears: her
thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace
in the woods of a local park.

The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her
young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy’s
disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is
compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state
police have uncovered no leads. Josh and Luis, the friends
who were the last to see Tommy before he vanished, may not
be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland
State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out a landmark
the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock.

Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry,
pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the
strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly
shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and
other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through
their windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn
from Tommy’s journal begin to mysteriously appear—entries
that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the
phantasmagoric; the loss of his father, killed in a
drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale
involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a
horrific incident that Tommy believed connects them.

As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of
what happened become more haunting and sinister, no one is
prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s
disappearance at Devil’s Rock.